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JAPAN: Foreign Caregivers’ Language Exam Triggers Debate
- Inter Press Service
Wahyudin dreams of becoming a full-fledged caregiver, if not a certified nurse, in Japan. But the Indonesian worker must first pass the required Japanese-language national certification examination, which is far from easy.
PHILIPPINES: Gov’t Smokes Out Tobacco Industry with Higher Taxes
- Inter Press Service
Tobacco multinational Philip Morris may have had good reason to send out victory smoke signals when Filipinos elected Benigno Aquino III to be president in May. After all, he is a regular smoker who has said he will not quit the habit.
WORLD CUP: 'Now We Demand They Do It For the Poor'
- Inter Press Service
Weak floodlights barely held back gathering darkness as Somalia met Serbia in the finals of the Poor People's World Cup. A small band of supporters were on hand to see an African side lift the cup in Cape Town's Vygieskraal Stadium.
ARGENTINA: Limits to Economic Growth Loom
- Inter Press Service
The Argentine economy is making a rapid recovery after the impact of the global financial crisis last year, but experts warn about the limits to growth, which will reach a ceiling shortly unless investments increase.
HEALTH-UGANDA: WHO Happy With Counterfeit Bill; Activists Not
- Inter Press Service
The Uganda office of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the country’s National Drug Authority are satisfied that the new version of the controversial Counterfeit Goods Bill does not threaten the importation and production of generic drugs by conflating them with fake drugs, as the first draft of the bill did. But health rights activists are not convinced.
BRAZIL: Environmental Impact Studies on Dams Count for Little in Amazon
- Inter Press Service
'It's a fait accompli,' acknowledges André Villas-Boas, head of the independent SocioEnvironmental Institute (ISA), resigned to the fact that the legal actions and protests have failed to block the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in Brazil's Amazon jungle region.
EAST AFRICA: Deadly Cactus Also good for Animal Feed — Research
- Inter Press Service
Joseph Ole Morijo is baffled by research findings that cactus plants can be used as animal fodder during drought. Not after he lost his entire herd of 152 goats and sheep to the said plant.
Haitians in DR Reap Far Less than They Sow
- Inter Press Service
Luis Miguel, a soft-spoken and serious 21-year-old from Haiti's Artibonnite Valley, stands on a ridge overlooking the small farm in the Dominican Cibao where he works as the owner's overseer. He adopted his Dominican moniker in order to fit in.
AUSTRALIA: Compensation Isn’t Justice in Aboriginal Death - Critics
- Inter Press Service
Late on a hot summer morning in January 2008, 46-year-old Aboriginal elder Mr Ward climbed into the back of a prisoner transport van for the 360- kilometre, four-hour journey from the small Western Australian goldfields town of Laverton to Kalgoorlie, a larger mining centre, where he was due in court to face drink driving charges.
ZIMBABWE: Questions Raised Over Water Treatment Funding
- Inter Press Service
The memories of Zimbabwe's 2008-2009 cholera outbreak are fresh in the minds of everyone except the people who have the safety of the country's water in their hands.
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